...For instance, the movie introduced the idea of a good lie while Mamare was in his class. In Huckleberry Finn, Finn lied about not seeing a slave, when he, in fact, did. Finn told that lie in order to protect his African American friend since if he told the truth, Finn’s friend would be hurt or killed. The movie progresses and sets up for a good lie of its own. Upon discovering the possibility of Theo being alive, Mamare returned to Kenya, to the refugee camp, in order to find his older brother. When Mamare was reunited with his older brother, he commenced his task of obtaining a visa for Theo from any embassy on good standings with the U.S. After 9/11, the U.S. cut the visa program with Muslim nations that could have ties with terrorist groups, one of which was Sudan even though the refugees from Sudan were mostly Christians fleeing persecution from Muslim attackers. Mamare was not having any luck with getting a visa for Theo, but when Theo asked, Mamare said that he obtained one. This is a good lie, if Mamare told the truth to Theo, it would only cause distress in Theo since he and Mamare were leaving for the U.S soon. Finally, the ultimate example of a good lie was towards the end of the movie. In the line for security, Mamare quickly told that Theo from that point forth was to be “Mamare.” In Mamare’s mind, Theo gave him life after switching...
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...Why is it important to survive? It's important to survive to be able to finish your life with your loved ones and to continue populating the world. The Lost Boys of Sudan withstand the civil war in Africa by running away and working together to collect food and hunt for wild animals. In the film "The Good Lie" starts with Theo living his normal life with his tribe when they were mauled by attack choppers, men with AK-47, and with men riding horses setting houses on fire. Without a warning, Theo and his other family siblings were the only ones left of the tribe. After the youngest sibling dies of dehydration Theo urinates in a metal bowl and surrounds the dead sibling's body and says "I wan't to live, I don't want to die," and he drinks his...
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...The Good Lie. This movie was based off of a true story of the lost boy's journey to America. Throughout a lot of crisis the lost boys were able to survive, some went on to a better life in America with great careers. The lost boys had to face many obstacles. First, they had to overcome losing their family when the soldiers came and drove them out. When they started walking it was imperative that they were being attentive. As their journey progresses, Theo finds a bullet near the river, which means that they have to cross the river in order to be safe. None of them knew how to swim so, Theo came up with a rope that you hold on to while crossing the river. This was very intuitive and helped everyone get across safely. In order to survive, you need to be intuitive. Also, when they were at the airport, they were separated from their sister. They wanted her with them, although they tried and got there sister back with the help of Carrie. All of these obstacles they had to overcome helped shape who they are....
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...Lie: My Favorite Word and Why At one point, people lie about something they have done or they did not do as expected. Lie is a word that my friends and I have used frequently and continue to use in our lifetime. Basically, the usefulness of lie in both bad and good situations is the rationale behind why it is my favorite word. During my childhood, I have used lie in both occasions: in bad and good situations. For instance, I once lied to my teacher that I was unable to make it to school in time because my mum car broke down about two kilometers away in order to avoid punishment. Again, I lied to my friends that I would not attend their party because I was not feeling well; however, the main aim was to prepare myself in the upcoming examinations. This essay paper reviews the lie as my favorite word and rationale behind by preference towards it. Lie is a three-letter word which is simple to pronounce, write and remember. According to Shaw, Wolfe and Salbu (1996), a lie is a deliberate false statement directed to other people to deceive them. Notably, it is profoundly surprising that people use lie frequently without much thought on the impact it has on others. Through my childhood, I can attest that the word lie has a huge impact on events and scenario it creates. For instance, our friends lied to us that will not be attending my brother’s birthday just two hours before the event. Their lie caused anxiety, dejection and worry to my family. However, they came few minutes...
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...# 3 The Truth “No man has good enough memory to make a successful liar” –Abraham Lincoln When reading this quote I immediately thought about how often I lie and how often other people lie. Could you imagine a world where there’s no such thing as lying? Would we all just be better acceptors of everything or would the world just be filled with anger for those not as willing to accept the truth? The fact of the matter is that the truth will come out sooner or later. You have to have a good memory to remember your own exact words. In many instances when someone tells a lie it’s usually a very quick response, denying or simply distorting a statement. For myself personally I am not one of the best liars. There is something about lying that goes against my morals and way of thinking especially when it comes to lying to certain people. As a teenager now I can distinguish how to lie and to whom I can lie to. I wouldn’t lie to my parents the same way I lie to my peers at school. For one thing my parents know me far too well and I probably would have a much more complex thought in the way I lie and what I decide to feed them . Whereas on the other hand lying to peers at school is much simpler because there is not as strong as a connection (not with all peers but the majority) there’s no need for your peers to interrogate you further. In this type of lying method you have to consider remembering the complex lie with its details, the plain simple lie leaving room to still add detail...
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...When is lying ok? Well when you lie you have to think of the other person and how it will affect them and sometimes even yourself. And another thing is that you have to be 50/50 in lying and telling the truth because it doesn't always work out for you. The first thing I want to talk to you about is that lying is always good to protect others and telling the truth is a way to feel less guilty. For an example when your friend ask if she looks good in this dress you dont no if to lie or to tell her the truth. If you lie think of the way it will affect her, but if you tell her the truth it might hurt her feelings but she know you will always have your back because if she ever wore that dress in public and she will get embarrassed and will get even more furious at you. Another reason you would lie is when your friend gets a haircut and she ask if you like it do you lie or tell the truth. if you tell the truth you will really hurt her feelings and this is something that you can not change so you would lie and say it looks good to protect her feelings and your friendship. It starts out as a lie and then comes out something bigger, for instance...
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...how often a lie is told. After a lie, the feeling of telling a lie is so terrible that it might have gotten the other people into trouble for something that did not even occur. In the article, “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, she talks to us about the different types of lies there are. She explains how lying comes out in a person’s everyday life even when is inevitable. However, “In the Pale Moonlight” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shows how one of the main characters, Captain Sisko, felt guilty because of the lies he had made. The lie he makes, cost...
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...Lying is a natural human habit. Whether it is used as a defense mechanism or to impress people, everyone lies a few times in their life. However, while lying is viewed as not virtuous, is it always bad? Lying can be used to protect a loved one, or to get out of an awkward situation. If used correctly, lying can be the best way to avoid confrontation, but if used incorrectly, can make your life much, much harder. Most parents want to give their child the best life they could possibly have. That means being able to tell your kids what’s wrong. For example, hitting. If hitting is a constant problem for a child, is it ok for the parent to leave it alone and let the child continue hitting? Another common issue many kids have is lying. Is it ok...
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...Ever since the early age, we have taught that lying is wrong and hurts people including ourselves. Moreover, we also have educated that it is better to accept the consequences of my actions than to lie. However, the more we grow up, the more we know about using of lying because telling the truth cannot always solve the problem. From my point of view, some lying is acceptable, some is not. It depends upon what purposes that make people tell lies. A white lie is allegedly one which is done for someone's good and which harms no one. There’s no such thing. The philosophical view that allows people to think that lies can be harmless is one which counts the self as nothing morally interesting. The first point to note is that although telling lie is easy to get things in the short period of time, it will create a bad impression on the next generation as well as it does not give any benefit on long way. For example, if you tell some lies to the children such as smoking doesn't effect on everyone around, what will they learn in their future? It is dangerous for us to aware of wrong way because of adult. Another point I would like to mention is that if we always cheat others many times, one day our lie will befall upon us and will lose prestige in our relationships. The story telling about a shepherd rearing his sheep is typical example. He cheats villagers many times that there was wolf on the hill. When they ran to save him but found no wolf, they became angry with him. And then when...
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...don’t want others to find out. Lying is the new moral of our modern day society. It's much easier to lie to someone than to tell the truth. In Ericsson’s essay The Ways We Lie, she describes nine descriptions and examples of lies we all say in a day. No matter how honest you try to be, most people ends up saying a lie. Sometimes lies are necessary, but does that really mean someone should build their life upon lies on top of lies. We tend to not pick them out as “water is to fish”. Throughout the essay it tells about how humans can lie in many different ways. As the quote states “our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish." Both cancer and garbage are used to describe the lying. Cancer is used to describe a...
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...of lying is okay. The scenario in this case is whether or not to tell a friend a small white lie to save their feelings. It seems that the solution to our problems is determining what the right thing to do is. One perspective, with deontology is philosopher Immanuel Kant, who said that lying was always morally wrong. He said all people are born with an "intrinsic worth,” also called human dignity. This dignity derives from the fact that humans are capable of freely making their own decisions and guiding their conscience...
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...healthy Lying to a person of any age could truly cause harm mentally and psychically, based on the lie being told. Do you realize by telling a child he/she is adopted could put him/her at risk of everything he/she truly believes in? The consequence of constructing a lie can result in various kinds of loss. One of the most destructive types of lies which can lead to loss is one of omission in which important details are not communicated. A situation in which omission led to horrific consequences can be seen in the lives of adopted siblings Shameeka and David. After their mother died giving birth to David, the children were separated into two different families. Although the siblings were separated Shameeka and David always keep in touch with each other. When David turned five the kids stopped seeing each other, once he was twelve years of age; Shameeka and David saw each other again for the first time. David told Shameeka about how depressed and suicidal he was because his foster family had began telling him that it was all his fault that his mother had passed, he began to listen to these lies and even worst he began to believe the lies. Although Shameeka and David’s mother did past after giving birth to David, his family left out the very important detail that the siblings mother did have cancer and it was so strong that the doctors didn’t think it would have been a good idea for the mother to give birth but she didn’t care she wanted to bring her baby boy into the world...
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...“The truth will never hurt as much as the exposure of a lie” (Unknown). Lies can protect someone, or lies can destroy ones life. In the book, The Pigman by paul Zindel, John and Lorraine lie constantly. John and Lorraine learn throughout their journey with Mr. Pignati, that one individual can suffer tremendously from one's mistakes. When one lies their lie can can make either a good, or bad impact on someone's life. Lies can protect someone, or destroy their life. People lie to use people. Likewise, People lie to take advantage of people. In the book, Lorraine and John use Mr. Pignati for money, alcohol, ect. Lorraine says to Mr. Pignati ‘“The L and J fund Mr. Pignati.” I bite my lip. “I’ll be glad to send you ten dollars…”’ (Zindel 28). This shows that Lorraine was using Mr. Pignati for money, by tricking Mr. Pignati into thinking that she was a charity worker. Furthermore, Lorraine lied to her mother about leaving the house, and Mrs. Jensen let Lorraine take advantage her. However, people can lie to save someone from hurting themselves, or ruining a surprise. Mrs. Jensen, however, lied to get ahead in life. Mrs. Jensen would lie and steal from her dying patient’s and this resulted in Lorraine following her mother's behavior....
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...ethics, often compared to deontology which put emphasis on duty to rules and consequentialism which derives right or wrong from the consequence of ones acts (Wikipedia, 2012). Therefore, virtue theory put emphasis on character, rather than rules or consequences, as the main part of ethical thinking. The difference between these three approaches to normative ethics has a tendency to rely more how moral dilemmas are approached than in how the moral decision is reached. For example, a consequentialist could argue that telling a lie is immoral because of the bad consequences it may produce; yet on the other hand may tolerate a lie if good consequences occur because of the lie, then it is okay. A deontologist on the other hand will argue that a lie is a lie, regardless of any would-be good that might come from the lie. A virtue ethicist, however, main emphasis would be less on the lying; but focusing more on the decision to tell the lie or not tell a lie. A virtue ethicist would say that says a lot about a person’s character and moral behavior (Wikipedia, 2012). Therefore, virtue ethics is about being rather than doing. With virtue ethics, ethics springs from the uniqueness and/or the character of an individual, rather than being a reflection of the actions of an individual(Wikipedia,...
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...Lying is an integral part of human life and communication. On occasion, it is easier to lie than to tell the truth. There are many reasons for lying, whether it be an attempt to protect someone or a lie out of compassion or charity. There are both advantages and disadvantages to not telling the truth. Sometimes, the truth may hurt a loved one, thereby making it easier to lie rather than see him/her get hurt. Although lying is considered malevolent by some, it's a necessary evil in life that has to be accepted. Lies out of compassion cannot be considered spiteful in any way. In my personal experience, sometimes, lying is the best, and only option. One winter, when I was eleven years of age, I was in New York City, right around the holidays,...
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